Why South Louisiana is a Hurricane hotspot

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]Why is South Louisiana such a hotspot?

[00:00:03]Ferragamo says the answer is geography.

[00:00:05]>> You got hurricanes that can come in from three different angles really. I mean you've got hurricanes that can form and come in from the southwest like Francine did it a couple years ago. You can have storms that form over the loop current and then come in from the south like Katrina did or Ida. Um and then you can also have storms that come in from the southwest.

[00:00:23]>> Southeast Louisiana does not just sit along the Gulf. In many places it reaches out into it. That gives hurricanes moving through the Gulf more of a chance to run into our coastline.

[00:00:33]And after studying 307 hurricanes over more than 170 years, that pattern is pretty clear. Southeast Louisiana is one of the places hurricanes find again and again. And for us, the question it's really never whether another hurricane will come, it's when. And it's also why we have to prepare every season just in case.